Linda Costa, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

Associate Professor & NLI Program Co-Director

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Linda L. Costa, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing.  She is Co-Director of the Nurse Leadership Institute.  Dr. Costa participated in interviewing 35 nurse leaders in practice and academia to develop the 2020 curriculum for NLI.  She is a health services researcher focused on care transitions and patient outcomes. She developed a care coordination/population health curriculum for clinical nurses as part of an academic-practice partnership.  She teaches in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program and the Master of Science in Nursing in the Health Services Leadership and Management specialty. Dr. Costa received a BSN from the University of Maryland, her MSN and PhD from The Catholic University of America